Featured Is this blue opaline glass?

Discussion in 'Pottery, Glass, and Porcelain' started by R. Antonis, Jul 13, 2017.

  1. R. Antonis

    R. Antonis Well-Known Member

    Hey everybody,

    I have been buying opaline glass for a while now.
    Most pieces I get my hands to are the white satin glass opaline
    pieces.

    Now I have seen these glass pieces (see picture).
    It's all the same kind of glass, and I'm debating on buying it.

    Especially the snuff bottle makes me says it's blue opaline glass.
    Might not be the super oldest blue opaline glass, but I think it's
    very nice. Does anybody know?

    It has kind of microscopical dots in it.

    This is the only picture I have by the way.
    Haven't bought it yet.


    Thank you!!

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  2. R. Antonis

    R. Antonis Well-Known Member

    And by the way... what is it :p?

    I know the small bottle is either a snuff bottle or a scent bottle.


    The left item could be some bonbonière or something.

    Anyone knows what the right one is for?
    Seems like a hand doesn't fit in :p
     
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  3. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

    I am not sure,but love love love that color.
     
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  4. Joshua Brown

    Joshua Brown Decently-Known-Member

    :wideyed:
     
  5. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    Pretty colors,I wonder if the right one is the bottom of a little oil lamp?
     
  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Maybe a potpourri holder? It is a gorgeous set.

    The bottle is likely to be a screw top scent (perfume) bottle.
    Most elegant snuff bottles are Chinese. Western snuff bottles are seldom elegant, and people in the West mostly used snuff boxes.
    The metal mount can be on both, which is confusing.
    I don't know if the vendor has more pictures so you can see more details, but here is the difference between a snuff bottle (left) and a screw top scent bottle (right):
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    The snuff bottle has a spoon or scoop fixed to the stopper, the metal mounted screw top scent bottle has a dipstick, usually made of glass.
    (Chinese silver gilt, tiger eye, carnelian, turquoise snuff bottle - Czechoslovakian molded glass scent bottle.)
     
    Last edited: Jul 14, 2017
  7. R. Antonis

    R. Antonis Well-Known Member

    Could you try to express that in dollar$ ? :dead::dead:

    No, but yes it's beautiful.
    I have tried to zoom in on the picture, to see the tiny dots in the glass.
    Don't know if it works.
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  8. R. Antonis

    R. Antonis Well-Known Member

    I have never seen a oil lamp with a dish under it.
    + The fact that it "belongs" to the bonbonière makes me say NO.
     
  9. R. Antonis

    R. Antonis Well-Known Member

    Yes, you're right. More pictures are unfortunately not availlable till I buy it and make them myself.
     
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  10. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    Gorgeous opaline!
    Think around 1840/1850, French :)
     
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  11. R. Antonis

    R. Antonis Well-Known Member

    Nice, I wasn't really sure. Thank you ;)
     
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